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Missing discharge dates for CXR imaging patients #1481

Open andre-vauvelle opened 1 year ago

andre-vauvelle commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I'm looking to find censoring times for a survival analysis task using the MIMIC-CXR-JPG dataset. To do this I'm linking with MIMIC IV 2.0.0, patients, and admissions tables. (MIMIC-IV v2.2 has a bunch of patients dropped to form an internal test set which affects the original splits in the CXR JPG data).

Index dates are set by the date of the images which are available. Dates of death (dod) are available for a subset of the total patients in the patients table.

Calculating censoring times should be possible as the maximum follow-up time for dod is set to 1 year after the last discharge date. However, I can't find discharge dates for 11,221 patients in the admissions table. This accounts for around 7.8% of total images within the CXR dataset.

Am I missing something? Are patients still in the hospital by the time the study ends? What censoring date can I assume for these patients?

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